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Other Words in Money’s Glossaries:

Man & Woman, Boy & Girl

Gynandromorphy: woman-man-shape. Thus, literally, the term means
having some of the body morphology and measurements of an average woman, and
some of an average man, or being at neither extreme.

Paraphilia/paraphiliac: a psychological condition of being obsessively
responsive to, and dependent on an unusual or unacceptable stimulus in order to
have a state of sexual arousal initiated or maintained.

The Man Who Invented Gender: “Although the Oxford English
Dictionary records the first usage of paraphilia in 1925, it was
largely Money who popularized the term among psychologists. Eventually, the word
replaced perversions in psychiatric literature.“

Love and Love Sickness:

Allosex-avoidancy: a socially dictated constraint on personal
disclosure to members of the other, but not one’s own, sex. It affects both
behaviour (as in locker-room nudity, for example) and communication, as in
sexual joking.

Androgynophilia: erotosexual pairing with a man and a woman serially
or simultaneously by a member of either sex.

Andromimetic: a girl or woman being a person manifesting the features
or qualities of a male in bodily appearance, dress and behaviour. There is no
fixed vernacular synonym except, maybe, a bull dyke, that is a female homosexual
who lives in the role of a man. She may request breast removal, but not genital
surgery, and usually not hormones to masculinize the voice, beard and body hair.

Apotemnophilia: the condition of being dependent on being an amputee,
or fantasying oneself as an amputee, in order to obtain erotic arousal.

(Comment: later, several other sexologists have either discussed or
facilitated apotemnophilia. Russell
Reid referred two such patients to a surgeon; Ray Blanchard and Anne
Lawrence gave papers at the Third International Body Integrity Disorder Meeting
in 2003 comparing apotemnophilia to Gender Identity Disorder; in 1999 Dr John
Brown removed a leg from an apotemnophiliac who subsequently died: Brown was
then imprisoned.)

Gynandromorphy: woman-man-shape. Thus, literally, the term means
having some of the body morphology and measurements of an average woman, and
some of an average man, or being at neither extreme.

Gynecomimetic: a boy or man being a person manifesting the features or
qualities of a female in bodily appearance, dress and behaviour. Specifically, a
drag queen, which is the vernacular term for a male homosexual who lives in the
role of a woman. He retains his male genitals, even though he may take hormones
to grow breasts.

Gynophila – Money’s spelling for gynephilia.

Sexosophy: the body of knowledge that comprises the philosophy,
principles, and knowledge that people have about their own personally
experienced erotic sexuality and that of other people, singly and collectively.

(Comment: as opposed to Sexology, the science of sex).

Other words used by John Money :

Abidance: continuing to remain, be sustained, or survive in the same
condition or circumstances.

Ambisexual -- an alternate term for ‘bisexual’, first cited in the OED
for 1938. Money claimed to have been one of the first to use the term, but later
dismissed it as meaning nothing different from ‘bisexual’.

Autoagonistophilia: pleasure from being viewed while having sex.

(Other writers spell it Autagonistophilia. Presumably the term, or simply
autagonist, could also be used for a kind of exhibitionist drag queen who is not
able to simply transvest, but is insistent on being read; likewise the kind of
transsexual who cannot simply be a woman, but demands that everyone be aware of
her transition. Money does not get into a discussion of this.)

(Comment: there should be a matching term for explaining sexuality and gender
identity purely in terms of family, society, social construction, self
fashioning etc – but what would that be?)

Biophilia – forms of sexual desire that lead to procreation. See also
Normaphilia.

(Comment: the word is also used by Erich Fromm and then Edward O Wilson for
the proposed human tendency to seek connections with other life forms. EN.Wikipedia)

Extraspective – the outward observation of things, the default way to
observe, the opposite to Introspective. Normally this would not need a name, in
that all life forms do it without knowing about introspection. However in
Money’s “gender indentity/role (G_I/R” the two complement each other.

Fuckology – a synonym for sexology. Sometimes spelt with a ‘ph’. In
1996 Money presented a paper to the American Association of Sex Educators,
Counselors and therapists which he titled: “Fuckology: The Science We Lack”.
There is a 2015 anthology of papers: Fuckology: Critical Essays on John
Money’s Diagnostic Concepts.

Homosexology/Heterosexology – a division of sexology by its two major
orientations.

Indicatrons “In recognition of the fact that psychology’s units of raw
data all serve to indicate something or other to the psychologist or
scientist, they can all be categorized as indicatrons.

Katharma. A word to be preferred over ‘freak’. “A person whose social
stigmata need to be cleansed by society so that he may become a rightful member
of the human race.

(Comment: because this word starts with ‘ped’, many will take it as having
something to do with pedophilia.)

Quim and swive: In neither the standard English vocabulary of
literature and science, nor the vernacular vocabulary of uncensored speech, are
there terms by which to distinguish what the woman does to the man, in the
procreative act, from what the man does to the woman.

The two words, from olden English, best fit the need. Either can be noun or
verb.

(Comment: Most online sites that define swive use it for either the male or
the female action. Most sites give quim only as a noun, not as a verb.)

Sexual orientation -- Money pushed for this term rather than ‘sexual
preference’ in that it is less judgemental and that attraction is not
necessarily a matter of free will.

Spookological: “That which is not biological is occult, mystical or,
to coin a term, spookological.”

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I have a social science degree. I spent several years in the 70s doing Gay Lib counselling, and moved on to organizing trans groups. I was rejected by the Clarke Institute (now CAMH) in the mid 1980s, probably because I do not match either of their stereotypes, but was accepted by Russel Reid on our first meeting in late 1987, and had surgery from James Dalrymple some months later. I have mainly worked as an IT consultant. I have been with the same husband for 45 years.